A/N: Holy crap! It's like... been a whole month. A WHOLE MONTH! I am so sorry! I feel terrible! Well my other story is over (feel free to check it out! i'm trying to get 100 reviews – which is a lot for me!) so now this is my main priority but I have exams and stuff coming up so I need to prepare and stuff... but I'll try and update this as frequent as I can! I know how annoying it can be for a story being updated after a long while because you forget what's going on! Basically, they're on an island. 'Nuf said ;) I'll stop rambling and say thanks to Bengee2015, child who is cool, SlasherForLife, Carphanie, EvilGeniusBookWorm13, Scarlett, Sum1cooler, BigTimeLovers14, darius prince of the sea, FavUYA, Hikari no Kasai, and annabellex2 for you reviews! Now, on with the story!


The sun made its way through the trees and directed in the closed eyes of Carlos. He slowly woke up and slowly rolled his arms off of James as not to wake him up. Wait... James? 'Where's Logan?' he thought, getting up. He stood up and rubbed his eyes. James rolled over and onto Carlos's feet. Carlos just gently shuffled them out from underneath him, once again trying not to wake him, and then quickly hopped about trying his best to regain his balance and not ruin the small picture he made. He looked at it and saw that a small addition had been made between him and Carlos. He peered in closely and saw it was just a circle with a line coming down the bottom. He followed to trail of the line to see that it said 'Water balloon' and smiled. A quick moan was heard and Carlos turned to see James stretching out on the ground and looking up at him. James sat up and observed his surroundings.

"Where are the others?"

He stretched downwards and felt the heat from Carlos still radiate off of him.

"Kendall wasn't gone long. I can still feel him. Wait, I was the big spoon..."

"Actually... that was me."

"Oh. What happened?"

"I dunno, I just woke up and they were gone and I was with you."

Carlos stared into the trees that circled him hoping that Logan and Kendall came back. James held out his arm for Carlos to pull him up and annoyingly smiled at him. Carlos sighed and pulled up James who uttered a thanks. James started to make his way to the trees.

"Where are you going?" Carlos asked, jogging to catch up with his friends.

"I'm going to look for our friends... again."

They both walked through the trees, moving creepers out of their faces as they wandered onwards towards the beach.


Two figures emerged from the tree line. Neither of them were moving too fast from being tired after a terrible night's sleep. They walked out and felt the heat of the sun hit their faces. The taller of the two trailed behind, slightly limping while the other took a few steps before turning to look back, sighing, and then walking along to repeat the process again.

"Could we not have left them a note, or waited for them to wake up? I don't think leaving them really is the best idea right now." the taller one complained.

"Look, Kendall, we don't really have much choice; you need to clean your leg. Do you want an infection?"

"Couldn't we have woken them up or something? What's Carlos going to think when he wakes up and James is right in his face."

"They looked too peaceful to be woken up. Besides, they need their sleep, you know how cranky James can be... not to mention you."

Kendall shot him a dirty look but ignored it. Logan was right though. James always insisted on getting his beauty sleep and if anyone decided to disrupt it. He would go on a big rant about how they were secretly trying to upstage him by making him ugly and they were all jealous. Poor Mrs. Knight never saw it coming...

Kendall just sighed, "I'm sorry, can we just hurry up and get back before they wake up."

Logan nodded and helped Kendall to the water. He unwrapped his shirt from Kendall's legs and began to attempt to wash it in the ocean. Kendall sat down and cupped water over his leg, which had started the healing process, be it a little dirty from spending the night on the muddy ground.

He sat on the sand and let the clear salty water sting his wound as he hoped it would make it better so it was one less thing to worry about. At the moment, his main priority – along with the rest of them – was thinking about how they were going to get off this island. He laid back and stared up at the sky, squinting due to the light practically blinding him. He was sure Logan was contemplating this because he wasn't talking either.

"Kendall?" he heard a voice call, but it wasn't Logan's. They both looked round to see James and Carlos walking towards them. Neither of them were overly cheery.

"Hey look," Logan said, "they're up and they found us! Who was wrong about being overly paranoid now?"

"Where were you guys?" James asked.

"Logan made me come here and thought it was a good idea not to tell you."

All eyes turned to Logan, "What? I didn't purposely say 'Let's leave them, that's a great idea!', I just thought it was best to leave them alone."

"Without letting us know? We could have been separated again!" James called.

"Well it isn't my fault that-"

"SHUT UP!" everyone turned to Carlos, "Just shut up! It doesn't matter, we're together, Logan has no shirt on, so we can all just chill out and talk about things that matter."

Everyone else just silently shrugged in agreement and James joined Logan and removed his shirt, lying down on the sand to try and tan himself even more. Carlos went to go sit next to Logan and Kendall resumed to not talking to anyone. He was too distant to make out actual words that Carlos and Logan were mumbling to each other and looked back up at the sky. There must be a way to escape was running through his mind, just a solution wasn't clear. Until it hit him.

"Smoke!"

"What?" James sat up.

"We need smoke! A signal fire! Then if a plane or something comes, it'll see it and save us!"

If he was being completely honest, he was just thinking out loud and was surprised anyone actually heard him. Before he knew it, James and Carlos had run to get some dead wood at the edge of the forest, and Logan was collecting rocks. He threw his shirt to Kendall who wrapped it around his leg and got up to help Logan. This went quite quickly. James and Carlos brought back several twigs and branches, even some leaves that would give off more smoke. Logan had arranged a large circle of pebbles and other rocks and set half the wood and leaves in the middle, and half to be used later. There was only one problem.

"How are we gonna light it?" Logan asked.

They all stared blankly at the unlit pile of brown and green in the middle of the beach mocking them. James ran his fingers through his hair when a light bulb went off in his head.

"I GOT IT!" he cried and started to rummage through his pockets. He yanked his lucky comb out of his pockets and pulled out his small mirror.

"James, I love you right now!" Logan called, and both Kendall and Carlos stared at him. Logan's cheeks went redder than they already were from the heat of the sun. James quickly jumped to the ground and started position the mirror so that the light reflected onto the bottom of their kindling. Logan was next to him, excitedly waiting for a spark so it could grow into a roaring fire.

It took a while, but eventually one small twig caught alight and that was it. Logan started blowing on it to spread it and started jumping around it ecstatically. They had hope of being saved.

"How long do you think until there's a plane or something to find us?" Carlos asked Kendall, who weren't as excited as Logan.

"I have no idea." he sighed, "I hope soon. If they know one of their planes are down, they must have sent someone out to come look for it. They'll find us, don't worry."

James joined the three as Logan started panting from the heat of the sun, his movement, and of course the fire. They were just hoping that it wouldn't go to waste too soon and that no one would come. Carlos's missed his helmet. James missed his hair care. Kendall missed his family. Logan missed his books. Logan was lucky though. There were times where he liked to just get away and be with himself for a few hours every now and then, often with a book, or just his iPod with some slow songs on. Here, he had pretty much a whole island to escape to. But for now he had to focus on getting everything under control. Next on the list: shelters. They were not sleeping on that muddy ground again, and needed somewhere better, like near the beach so people could see them. But this would wait while they all stared at their quick morning's work.


A/N: This wasn't worth the wait really... oh well. I promise there will be interesting chapters, but for the next one or two chapters, it'll be just boring talk. And then things happen. I just didn't want to rush the story (anymore than I rushed this chapter) so I hope to update more, but January is full of so many exams! I have to study and stuff -.-

If I don't update by then, HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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